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Good morning everyone and wow how fast has this year flown past...instead of a card for today I have decided to do a review of some of the stunning images I have used this year and to start off with this is the stunning Amber, isn't she beautiful...those eyes just bring her to life

my next one is from one of my favourite ranges...the Simply Adorable and is called ThomasI love this range so much I always reuse them

my next is another favourite I reuse time and again, she is one of those stamps that can be used for any occasion and is called Believe

the next is so so cute and girlie she had to be included in my review choice...this beauty is from the Winter Wonder digis and is called Princess

my last choice for my review of 2013 just has to be another Simply adorable...this is the handsome Nathan, I love colouring him so much and he always seems to turn out ok too...

well that's it for this year, I hope you liked my Sugar Nellie choices...all the detail are on my blog as always...the only thing left for me to do is wish you all aHAPPY NEW YEAR 2014
whatever your up to tonight be careful and have fun

Good morning sweeties! I hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas. I spent the last couple of days enjoying my family, including my new little granddaughter who is only 3 weeks old :) Of course I ate way too much food and sweets and I'm sure my clothes will be a little more tight than they were a few days ago. Even though Christmas has now come and gone I have one more Christmas project to share with you.

This lovely image is Princess and she's available at Funky Kits. I picked up this little wood frame at a local craft shop and painted it a cream color. I colored this adorable little girl with copics and colored pencils and added just a bit of Glamour Dust to her dress and crown. I glued the image to the back of the frame and then added a bow with a little flower. So now I have a new ornament to hang on my Christmas tree each year. I love this little project and hope to pick up more frames to make a few of these for next year!

I also have some sad news to share today. This is my last post as a member of the design team. I want to thank Karen for letting me be a part of the Sugar Nellie family for the last few years. I have loved every minute of coloring and designing with her beautiful stamps. I've also enjoyed working with the rest of this amazing team. These ladies are so talented and just the sweetest group of people to work with. And last but certainly not the least, I want to thank all of you that stopped by to leave me such lovely comments. Your kind words were always very much appreciated :)

Good morning everyone and I hope your having a wonderful Christmas Eve and not having to dash round making last minuet purchases...take a bit of time to relax and have yourself some festive spirit...now onto my card for today which is using this stunning Simply Adorable...isn't she beautiful and like all the Adorable's shes a dream to colour...this one is called Ballet Student and all the details are on my blog if you would like to pop by...thanks for stopping by today and I want to wish you a wonderfully happy and festive time over the next few days and

Hello and a calm and peacefull Sunday to you all. It's crazy to think that work is finished for the year and I need to have a good think and plan out stuff before we go back in January. For now I am happy to have school finished and Katie home. That's my house full for the holidays.

(My dream place to chill, read and enjoy coffee with some yummy cake)

Now it's all about getting the house ready and thinking about the food. With six for Christmas diner , it's no bigger a meal that I would have cooked any night of the week when the children were younger. They eat more but it's the extras that makes Christmas dinner stand out. The table is set, napkins and crackers. Three courses, extra side dishes and a very indulgent sweet.

( traditional dinner always tastes better when some one else cooks)

Once ridiculously stuffed we spend the day in the lounge ( the good room ) and continue to laze about, play games and eat sweeties. The mountain for wrapping paper will no bout fill the recycling bin in one go but in the past we have almost put the chimney on fire burning it in the house.

I will need to take a trip to town later to see my Mum as Granny has been house bound for the last few years and chooses not to come out even for Christmas. M & S meals for one are on her menu this season, she eats like a wee bird so no point in boxing up the left overs.

What ever your plans, enjoy.

Take some time out for yourself after all I don't doubt that most of the preparations are left to you!

I'll catch you again, when it's all over and I might just bring in 2014 @ the House of Sugar with a few new Elf's to help us out. Not the kind that sit on the shelf, but the kind that like to colour.

A "wee minding" is how you would describe a gift given for no particular reason. One use of the word "mind" is to remember something or someone, or to call them to memory.

A "minding", then, can be a keepsake, or something given which may not be particularly valuable in itself, but is an indication that the recipient has been in the giver's thoughts, *or* to bring the giver to the thoughts of the recipient - a memento, maybe is one way to think about it.

With those work I hope that you now understand what a wee minding is. For me this year there a few people on my list...

Good morning sweeties! I don't know about you but I'm still busy making Christmas cards. Today I've used one of the lovely fairies from the Return to Winter Wonderland release.

This little beauty is called On the Wings Of Love. You can find her and the other beautiful Sugar Nellie images at Funky Kits. I colored her with copics and colored pencils. I have added lots of Glamour Dust as I do love for my fairies to sparkle! I also used some of the Frantage embossing powder but I believe I need to practice more in order to get the lovely results that I see on other cards. My sentiment is stamped on the tag that's in the little kraft sack. I added a small poinsettia cut with a Memory Box die.

Over the weekend I did far to much buying and wrapping but I finally think I'm there. With all my Christmas shopping done and dusted I'm turning my attention the things that normally get missed if you aren't organised enough. One year in our house their were a lot of little unhappy faces when we sat down for lunch. We had forgot the crackers!

So today my day will be filled with scoring, measuring and punching! Yes I am making Christmas crackers. I am using the envelope maker by "We R memory keepers" and the hougie board ( both of which we stock in Oldmeldrum and Elgin). I spent last night figuring out the measurements and the one below is what I came up with. Today I'm going to try and make a bigger one and then churn them all out. I am using them for the Christmas table and I have bought small gifts to suit each person inside. They will also act as a name place. I am also going to use them to give as gifts to some special ladies who craft. I think it's nice to give a crafter a crafty gift as they understand the work that's gone into it.

Good morning everyone, its so scarily close to the big day now isn't it...are you all ready for it?...for my card for today I'm using another of the beautiful brand new Return to Winter Wonderland release...this one is the beautiful More Hands Make light Work...I'm loving this new release they are a dream to colour...which ones did you buy, I would love to know...all the details of my card are on my blog as always I would love you to pop by...thanks for stopping by and whatever your up to today I hope its a relaxing one for you

I can actually say I have has a lazy week with a couple of days sitting at home.
Christmas may be right around the corner but very little decorations or pressies have been put up or wrapped. Maybe dealing with Christmas in my day job, since Easter, takes away from the magic. Maybe if I had some small believers to spoil, it would mean so much more to enjoy Christmas through their eyes.
Lucky you if there are children in your life for they are Christmas.

But the few pressies I have will require extra special wrapping. Over to pinterest I go, now to decide on a theme. I have a slap of air drying clay. I have lots of Kraft wrap and tags, string and ribbon, maybe a little glitter card.

Too much choices, pinterest lulls you into to a false sense of ability, I must be one of the worst believers.
I see it.......great idea
I gather up all supplies.....it sits there, in the corner, still in the bag.
My , must have it now,bag of supplies to do that oh so easy, fun and trendy project I pinned.

There will be a diagnosis soon, it's a virus that is effecting millions!

(No the sewing machine is not threaded up yet but I have cut out some felt shapes)

A wee bit of news to share with you and a surprise release of digital images to complemnt that news.

Our lovely and talented Vicky recently helped out with a deadline to fill a magazine feature for
Complete Cardmaking issue 47

Five wonderful project using Sugar Nellie images. All of these sweet stamps are now available as digital. Great news for all our overseas customer and those that want to avoid the Christmas postal system.

Watch out for more digital stamps, I am getting them loaded slowly.

In the same magazine you also see Krista Smiths characters, remember her Simply Sassy range is also available over at www.funkykits.co.uk.

This sweet image is called Christmas Cookies and she's available in the Funky Kits shop as a digi image. I colored her with copics and then used my colored pencils to add some more shading. The star and ground are coated with Glamour Dust for some sparkle. I really wanted to focus on the stamp so I simply added some ribbon, a bow, pearls, and a little gingerbread button ... a very clean and simple design.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have some time to get inky today!

Can you believe it's two weeks today until Christmas?? How is everyone getting on with their shopping? It's been busy in the shop. This time last year I had gotten a lot quieter as everyone had finished their crafting for Christmas and moved onto to food and Santa shopping. However this year we have a big range of gifts available so I'm still kept busy.

We try to source our gifts locally and handmade and we do have something lovely things! We have some beautiful staves made out of old whiskey barrels and made into candle holders and bottle racks ( a perfect gift for a male). My favourite line at the moment has to be voyage. They are a very popular home furnishing company. We have quite a range of their cushions, foot stools and door stoppers in at the moment and we are expecting a few more things very soon. I just love their enchanted forest design!

Good morning everyone...well are you all ready for Christmas yet?, I'm not quite there yet but working on it...this bit of gorgeousness is from the new Winter Wonderland release...shes called Gift Wrapping and I know the amazing Vicky used her yesterday but I couldn't resist using her myself shes so pretty isn't she all the details are on my blog if you would like to pop by...btw did you know there's a huge 50% SALE on at Funky Kits theres hundreds of stamps on sale...why not pop on by and see what bargain or two you can pick up...enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for stopping by

Sugar Nellie's Gorgeous Girl range were my first stamping loves... it's going back a while, but I think they were the first stamps I ever bought, and I still love them now. So I thought I'd dress one of my favourites, the sweet little Bumble Bee, as a little holly fairy for Christmas!

What do you think - did it work?

I love this stamp as she's so perfect for paper piecing... and she's very pretty too! You can find Bumble Bee here at Funky Kits.

This sweet fairy image is Hey Little Birdie and she was so much fun to color! I used my copics and then some colored pencils for extra shading. I added some Glamour Dust to her wings. You can find this fairy and all her friends over at Funky Kits.

Hello sugar addicts, I hope your weekend has been stress free.
Christmas is upon us and it can be exactly what you make it.
There is no house as perfectly decorated as in the magazines.
There are so many tasty rich food ideas, but remember its only one meal and is your fridge big enough or the left overs?
Gifts are all too much of nothing important.

I think as I get older, and wiser , I understand not to let this season stress me out trying to be perfect.

This year more than any before, we have trimmed Christmas down. There are no small believers. No one needs anything. The gift I have chosen have been smaller but more thought has been put into them. I have not done it just for the sake of it. If I don't think it's something that will be appreciated, I have not bothered.
I love crafts, I love hand made and have had lots of pleasure looking for special gifts. Many are stranded in USA as Debbie does not come home until after Christmas, but it will be exciting to see her and open her suit case!

I have things coming from all over the world, inc Russia ( just got a dispatch email from etsy) :) happy happy happy

I have recieved a new sewing machine, FREE with the compliments of club card points from Tesco.
Will I be brave enough to get it out the box? Those drawers of fabric are breading. Best grab the bull by the horns and get on with it. That's my goal before the holidays start.

I have also had great pleasure in sharing the Elf on the Shelf, I had several which I have given away, leaving me with Megan's one. Shame it's 3 years too late. I have not given it to her, because all that an elf stands for would go out our the window within the first half hour. He would be traumatised!
But I look forward to hearing about the other Elfs which have settled into houses that believe.

Good morning everyone hows your week going?...wow can you believe how close its getting to Christmas, time is just flying by isn't it...for my bit of sugary sweetness today I used one of the brand new Return toWinter Wonderland release...she is the beautiful Hey Little Birdie, I coloured her with my usual distress inks and all the details are on my blog as always...thanks for popping by today and I hope whatever your up to today its fun for you